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Hate Incidents

Incidents of apparent hate crimes and hate group activities listed here are drawn primarily from media sources. These incidents include only a fraction of the approximately 191,000 reported and unreported hate crimes that a 2005 government report estimated occur annually.

Two men allegedly called a black woman a racial epithet while beating her unconscious in a bar. Eddie Taylor, 53, and Eddie Taylor Jr., 25, were charged with aggravated assault and a hate crime.

Type: Assault

Reported: 12/22/2013

Seal Beach, CA

Swastikas and other graffiti were spray-painted on the window of a spa and on a nearby sidewalk.

Type: Vandalism

Reported: 10/28/2013

Moreno Valley, CA

A racial epithet was scratched on a woman's vehicle.

Type: Vandalism

Reported: 10/14/2013

Davis, CA

Clayton Daniel Garzon, 20, pled no contest to a felony count of battery causing serious bodily injury and a hate crime enhancement for yelling anti-gay slurs at a gay man and beating him in March. Garzon will receive a five-year prison term.

Type: Legal Developments

Reported: 09/17/2013

Tracy, CA

Landscaping rocks in the shape of a swastika were left in the front yard of a black city councilwoman.

Type: Vandalism

Reported: 06/30/2013

Davis, CA

A gay man was allegedly beaten on the street by a man who yelled anti- gay slurs. Clayton Daniel Garzón, 19, was charged with battery with serious bodily injury, assault with means of force likely to produce great bodily injury and threats to commit a crime resulting in great bodily injury.

Type: Assault

Reported: 03/19/2013

Sacramento, CA

A man was allegedly attacked by two men who used anti-gay slurs. One of the men allegedly beat the victim with a baseball bat.